"How could any specialist cooperate when it doesn't understand how the others work?" Minsky's answer is that you don't need such understanding: "Each part of the mind exploits the rest, not knowing how the other parts work but only what they seem to do." (NB: This strikes me as an interesting variant of functionalism, because it is a "functionalist attitude" being incorporated into the functioning of the components!)
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